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Martin Luther King is born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Martin Luther King , Jr. becomes a Baptist minister after recieving a Bachelor's Degree in Soicology.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. marries Corretta Scott.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. starts the bus boycott after the Rosa Parks insident on Jan. 1, 1955.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes chairman of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration.
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King is arrested for a sit in at a department store in Atlanta.
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Dr. King and many other civil rights leaders speak at the March on Wasington. Over 250,000 people attened this event.
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The Civil Rights Acted is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Dr. King speaks to an audiance of 12,000 people at that year's Chicago Freedom Festival.
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Dr. Martin Luther Kimng, Jr. is shot to death on the bolcony of his motel on April 4, 1968.
